corbels

TWO ANGELS, TWO BUCKINGHAMS

May 22, 2022

anniversaries, art, buildings, genealogy, heraldry, religion, travel

Buckingham, Buckingham Museum, coaching inns, coins, corbels, crown, Dukes of Buckingham, Edward III, Edward IV, gold half-angel, Grantham, Great North Road, Knights Templar, Phillippa of Hainault, Richard III, Sir Isaac Newton, St. Michael, St. Wulfram, swan

A nice little pre-Christmas break took me to two towns of interest, Buckingham and Grantham. I wanted to see Buckingham museum which is currently hosting a Richard III display featuring the gold Half Angel found in the fields nearby. It was a nice little collection and the info panels were mercifully free of too many…
THE LION IN THE RIVER

Mar 4, 2022

archaeology, buildings, heraldry, religion

Carmelite Priory, corbels, Edward Duke of York, Kennet, lions, Marlborough, Marlborough House, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire

Volunteers working on clearing weeds in the River Kennet in the attractive Wiltshire town of Marlborough recently got a big surprise. A large lump of masonry was shifted from its position on the river-bed and they found themselves gazing into the weed-draped, grinning countenance of a stylised medieval lion! The lion is believed to have…
Edward IV and…Richard III….?

May 8, 2020

art, buildings, religion

Barnard Castle, corbels, da Vinci, Edward IV, Richard III, St. Mary’s

I really can’t imagine why anyone would carve Richard III (above right) looking like this. To me it’s just a head. I can more accept the image on the left as being Edward IV. Both are figures on corbels at either end of the chancel arch in St Mary’s Church, Barnard Castle. Richard was…

corbels

TWO ANGELS, TWO BUCKINGHAMS

THE LION IN THE RIVER

Edward IV and…Richard III….?